Memoirs

This book vividly portrays the bitter trials of life in Soviet Russia

and Nazi Germany. It is a story of the authors recollections of abject

poverty and total intimidation in which his terrified parents and villagers

lived under the dictatorships of the Soviet Union from the forcible collectivization

to the advent of World War II, and of the Nazi Germany during the temporary

German occupation of the Caucasus. The author rebelled against the heartrending and

unforgettable mistreatment of the people by both dictatorships during the war. This

frequently endangered his life and forced him to flee, leaving behind everything dear to

himfriends, relatives, parents, native village, and country. Thus he wandered through

Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Italy, at times as a hunted fugitive. He

survived the war and two forcible repatriations back to the Soviet Unionfirst from

Austria, and then from Italy; then he moved to Jordan, lived there for eight years, and

finally immigrated to the United States of America in 1956. Mr. Natho found shelter

in the best and freest country in the world. The book is highly interesting, informative,

and easy to read. It is filled, not only with the cruelties and horrors of the war and

dictatorships, but also with human passion, kindness, heroism, and love. It will enrich

your soul and experience.